The Martin Car Talk Click and Clack Special Edition is a classic Dreadnought, featuring solid tonewoods throughout for full, powerful tone; an Engelmann spruce top with forward-shif ted 5/16” scalloped braces, East Indian rosewood back and sides, a 1 3/4” (at the nut) low profile neck with diamond volute, and African black ebony fingerboard and belly bridge. A Style 45 rosette in select abalone pearl is matched by a color ful Style 45 mosaic backstrip. Bold herringbone around the top and fine black/white inlay on the back and sides are accented by grained ivoroid binding; the grained ivoriod endpiece and heel cap are framed by fine black/white inlays. Both the nut and saddle are crafted from genuine bone.

The fun begins on the polished ebony headplate, with – just below the old style C. F. Martin decal logo – a mother of pearl inlay of Click and Clack in a dilapidated car trailing parts down the fret board in their wake. Those parts and tools – also inlaid in mother of pearl with thin pearl borders - serve as the fingerboard position markers: fender at the 3rd fret, muffler at the 5th fret, muffler pipe at the 7th fret, battery at the 9th fret, tire at the 12th fret and wrench at the 15th fret. Tom and Ray’s signatures appear in pearl at the 20th fret.

Back at the headstock, Gotoh chrome tuners are equipped with unique “Car Talk” buttons featuring a car similar to the one on the headplate, designed by Bill Morrison and custom cast by Goldbug. The pickguard is also unique, as it bears – thanks to new technology – a “printed” version of the classic “Car Talk” credits (heavy on the puns) that run at the end of the show. Aging toner gives the top vintage character under Martin’s flawless polished gloss body finish; the neck receives a satin finish for playing comfort.

Each C. F. Martin Car Talk Click and Clack Special Edition guitar features two interior labels. One is personally signed by Tom and Ray Magliozzi, and numbered in sequence without total. A tiny mango in the lower right corner serves as a reference, of sorts, to one of the show’s more intriging “Puzzler” segments. A second photographic label depicts Tom and Ray holding their model in a humerous “Car Talk Gothic” parody, with credit to illustrator Bill Morrison. Includes a hardshell case.